BALANGA CITY, Bataan – An electrical consultant of a government-owned Australian Defense Industries in Sidney, Australia is remarkably amazed by the unprecedented industrialization of the historic peninsula.
Noel Quiroz of Barangay Burgos, Pilar town, this province, is surprised to see the former unproductive uplands of the province are now being developed into housing projects, gasoline service stations, fast food restaurants, shopping malls and commercial centers with property leasing sections for offices, tourism-resorts, education and health businesses.
Quiroz, who migrated to Australia after the closure of the American largest naval base in the Far East, Subic Bay Naval Facilities in Olongapo City, has observed the impressive changes in the investment landscape of Bataan from agriculture to industrial.
He stressed the presence of productive industrial growth centers and several Special Economic Zones has redirected the outcome of the sound macroeconomic fundamentals and excellent business foresights of late Bataan outstanding legislators, Congressmen Pablo Roman and Enrique T. Garcia, Jr. which totally transformed the local business scenario into one of the premier industrial hubs in Central Luzon.
Under the leadership of Bataan Governor Albert Raymond S. Garcia, Quiroz reiterated that Garcia has provided the strategic mechanism and structure for more in-depth socio-economic –industrial plan and exploring virtually an efficient system of upgrading the quality of life, value of education and preserving ecological integrity.
Surprisingly, Quiroz has noted the rapid transformation of the 68-kilometer Roman Expressway into a bustling commercial district is indicative of the whole-hearted trust and confidence of local and foreign investors to the good local governance